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My DS Lite has been bricked accidentally by it shutting off at 1% in Flashme.
I have an R4 and a CycloDS. I also am picking up a Supercard Lite on Monday.
Yes, I did see the one Start + Select trick, it did not work.
Please help me ASAP.

if you want, you could try the Parellel Port flashing thingy, which can recover you from a brick. But it needs you to dismantle your DS and solder stuff... If you're interested google DarkFader and find out how on his website.

if you want, you could try the Parellel Port flashing thingy, which can recover you from a brick. But it needs you to dismantle your DS and solder stuff... If you're interested google DarkFader and find out how on his website.

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it's a lite, no soldering at all is needed

just unplug the bios/wifi chip from working one
put it in bricked one
start flashme
swap working for broken
press xbxb
wait till 100%
????
profit!

R4 huh? Well, if it's a legit one (not a clone) you might be able to recover. I did this once and I recovered a bricked DS Lite. What you need to do is use a program called r4crypt (http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=243) to encrypt the flashme installer and name it the same as that system file of the R4 (_DS_MENU.DAT) and put it on the root of the SD card. If you've flashed enough of flashme to have the recovery code in there you should be able to use Start+Select to boot up the R4 and continue flashing, and therefore unbrick.

Got this info from this tutorial (http://www.allaboutgames.co.uk/blogs/2007/05/26/how-to-recover-a-half-flashed-ds-with-an-r4ds-or-m3-simply/), and I have personally used this info to recover a half-flashed DS Lite about 2 years ago. However if you turned off the power before flashme could write the recovery code in, you're SOL, your only option is to open up the DS and do a JTAG flash.